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The Future of Handwriting

The Future of Handwriting

In Fall of 2021, the 100 or so students in Greg Niemeyer’s “L&S 25: Creativity in Practice” course responded to a simple prompt with urgent creativity. The prompt: Write a note from the future to the present, by hand. …

Eyes Toward Tomorrow Program Enhancing Collaboration, Connections, and Community Using Bioinspired Design (Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 61, Issue 5, November 2021, Pages 1966–1980)

Eyes Toward Tomorrow Program Enhancing Collaboration, Connections, and Community Using Bioinspired Design (Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 61, Issue 5, November 2021, Pages 1966–1980)

The goal of our Eyes Toward Tomorrow Program is to enrich the future workforce with STEM by providing students with an early, inspirational, interdisciplinary experience fostering inclusive excellence. We attempt to open the eyes of students who never realized how much their voice is urgently needed by providing an opportunity

There's an earthquake coming!

There’s an earthquake coming!

One Saturday afternoon a few years ago, Richard Allen was riding Bay Area Rapid Transit between Berkeley and Oakland when the train suddenly stopped. “We’ve had an alert for an earthquake,” the conductor announced. “We’re going to assess the situation and decide what to do.” Allen, the director of the

Curious About Big Ideas?

Curious About Big Ideas?

One of my favorite parts about attending UC Berkeley is being challenged to learn and think in fun and unexpected ways. There are so many opportunities for this, including one I particularly enjoyed: Big Ideas Courses from the College of Letters & Science (L&S). …

Misinformation in and about science

Public engagement and understanding of science should be a priority for all scientists. This is not a matter of just teaching more astronomy or biology. Rather, it involves nurturing innate curiosity and teaching people to understand how science works, how to consider evidence when making conclusions, and how popular media

Sign Up for Discovery

Sign Up for Discovery

It wasn’t until her third year at Berkeley that computer science major Elicia Ye learned about the University’s fascinating Discovery Courses. …

The Next Big One—Earthquake Technology

The Next Big One—Earthquake Technology

Allen teaches Berkeley’s oldest course on earthquakes. He calls it “Earthquakes in Your Backyard.” The name couldn’t be more appropriate, because the Hayward is a particularly dangerous fault. It hasn’t spawned a major earthquake since 1868. Sometime soon, it could go. …

Cal Advantages: Freshman Seminars

I have had many incoming students on my tours as me for advice for UC Berkeley freshman. This is a hard question to answer – being a large research university, opportunities at UC Berkeley are nearly endless. No two paths are identical, and it is impossible to generalize life at